BAD SOLDIERS

"I must say something about the bad soldiers of Christ the King, that is, the cowardly Christians. Nothing displeases a King so much as the cowardice of his soldiers; if his soldiers are cowardly, the King is ready. Christians who have a kind of inferiority complex of being Christians do not honor Christ the King [...] For Christ to be truly King, at least in us, we have to overcome fear, cowardice, pusillanimity, without being “little men”, as Saint Teresa said. And how can we overcome fear? Fear is a giant! 'Did you forget that I was with you?'"

Father Leonardo Castellani

VOX POPULI, VOX DEI?

"When they say that 'vox populi, vox Dei' and that the majority is always right, let us remember that dishonest majority that shouted: «Crucify him». When demagogues want something, they say that «the people want it». It is almost always a lie. But even if it were true, that is not all. The people may want bad things and good things: depending on how they are guided."

Leonardo Castellani, The Gospel of Jesus Christ, Passion Sunday

PHARISEE OR PUBLICAN?

"The more religious a man is, the less he desires to show off his religiosity, to pray loudly or to sound trumpets -and to invite journalists- when he gives alms. The great modesty that prevents us from showing what is best in us comes from the fear of handling that ruins everything. When a man has extraordinary gifts, he has a great desire to appear like an ordinary man, at least religiously.” 

 Father Leonardo Castellani 

MODERNISM WILL BE THE RELIGION OF THE ANTICHRIST

• It maintains the outer forms of all religions, but empties them of its content.

"Modernism is the latest evolution of liberal Protestantism and is the most subtle and complex heresy that has existed and can exist, so it will undoubtedly be the religion of the Antichrist; because it reconciles in itself the two antagonistic notes with which St. Paul mysteriously describes the Man of Sin, and that until today seemed incompatible: first, he will be an adversary of all religion and worship; second, he will sit in the temple making himself worship as God. Modernism undoes all existing religion, appropriating their external forms, and emptying them of all content to finally fill them with the idolatry of Man."

Father Leonardo Castellani, Comentarios a la Suma Teológica de Santo Tomás.

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God

What is God?

- Say, what is God, oh beautiful lights?

Order! - The stars answered me.

- Say, what is God, oh beautiful flowers?

- Beauty! - The roses answered me.

- Say, what is God, oh Blessed Mother. And, looking at the Crucifix, she said:

- Love is God. A love purer than the light of day.

Fr. Leonardo Castellani

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